Does any believe that is actually possible to read other's minds? What about being able to see the future? A

Answer 1

I think we will soon have the technology to "read minds". Recovering information from the future is a little harder but there is some interesting stuff on rotating light beams. Try looking on youtube under time machines and discovery channel.

Answer 2

No and no.

You can read subtle physical and oral cues that others give subconsciously and seem to read minds by asking the right questions. However, there's no real evidence to ever put any faith in any claim of psychic abilities and way too much evidence to disprove them. People, thus, can appear to read minds, even believe they can do it themselves, when all they are really doing is hearing, seeing, and understanding the non-verbal cues.

The future? Probably not. Definitely not in any psychic way. The past is fixed. If time travel ever becomes even a viable theory (let alone an actual practice) it would be possible to go backward in time because there is only one possible past for any point in the present. Once you got there, though, that past would be your present and it would be different from the past you had before you went back by virtue of you being there. Right then and there you have changed what would have been your future so you couldn't have the same future.

It's actually supposed to be confusing.

Anyway and furthermore, from any given present could be infinite possible futures. And it's not just a matter of decisions we make. Relativity shows that particles can act on each other instantaneously not only from great distances (like really, really great distances, even) but also from different points in time. People can't, of course, but particles can. Well, from different times people could but not from significantly different times. Our bodies would simply be destroyed by the g-forces created by the velocity needed to make us travel fast enough to make relativistic time differences large enough to even notice.

The point is that even if you did have some psychic idea of a future it is only one of any infinite possible futures. Which future you eventually meet has way too many variables acting to create it including, even, some random quark that didn't have a definite spin at the time you saw your possible future but did before that future became your present. Even that one quark could make it an entirely different future.

And this is all just basic relativity and quantum mechanics.

Stephen Hawking is much smarter than I and, thus, far better suited to explain it clearly. Luckily he does so in his easily available publications.

Answer 3

The way you have framed your question makes it clear that you have thought very carefully about the matters you raise, to the extent that I am tempted to say you do not need help and can easily take care of these questions yourself. However, as an older person who is like you in some ways, there is one thing I may be able to help with. It concerned the one time in my life when I decided that I could afford a luxury car, which was something I always wanted. As soon as I found I could afford one I no longer wanted one ! It seemed that what I really wanted was to be able to own such a car, rather than actually owning it. You might find the same sort of thing when you finally get to a similar point, in which case everything will take care of itself. It usually does.

Answer 4

Yes. Well, no. Nobody can "read" anyone's mind because the mind is a complex thing. It is not a book and cannot simply be read. It is much more complex than that. However, I do believe that two people can think the same thing, possibly at the same time in the same situation. You can know what somebody is thinking, or is about to say, especially if you are quite close to that person or know them quite well. This is because you know how they usually think and, without realising, you kind of know how their mind works.

Answer 5

Well, yes, I do believe that some have people can "read" others' minds. It's not so cut and dry though. It's more of an energy thing. A sensory perception. I also feel that we are all capable of it if we tuned in. As far as people knowing or seeing the future...well, as long as Bush is the president, yes, we know that we can see the future...and the future is phucked.

Answer 6

Yes, all truth and perceptions are memories in time, whether past present or future. The human conscience is connected with others; similar to how you can "feel" the emotions of someone close to you without verbally communicating, the same connection can happen between people separated in time and space.

So it is possible and has been experienced where thoughts or intentions or events have been perceived from elsewhere in time. Another frequently reported phenomena is that the more traumatic an event, the more energy is involved or released, so that it creates a greater impression or impact that is more readily perceived (like ghosts after a murder or in one case of clairvoyance, a woman I know who suddenly felt the instant her son was murdered that he was drowning and crying out, which was later confirmed by an investigator that he had been dumped in a lake to hide the crime).

Tests for clairvoyance on autistic subjects show a higher than average "correlation" with psychic ability (of guessing cards before seeing them) which was interpreted to suggest that maybe autistic perception was out of sync timewise and could be ahead or more in tune with the future.

People who have reported past-life memories or associations also seem to tap into the minds or consciences of soul-mates who lived before them; so it is conceivable that such soul-mates connected across time may influence each other's thoughts or actions, and the past and future in fact influence each other in a single continuum of events.

Answer 7

All thoughts are electrical impulses, so if someone is sensitive enough, they could most definitely "read" other minds. The future however can only be guessed at, but the more information that you have the earlier you will see patterns developing. Then you can make a prediction but there is no guarantee that it will unfold that way, free will always can throw a wrench in things.

Answer 8

I've got a box and it pretty much accurately predicts everything about the future most of the time

Answer 9

Yes, possible for clairvoyants and hypnotists. Saints and sages are capable of looking into the future.

Answer 10

Hi, I believe some people have the power to do so. That's just me.
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